St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-13
A VIPER'S VENOM.
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nation. And now what happens at the depot?
They are met by representative Republicans;
they see our city and our people; the editor
OF the Tribune sits with them upon a public
platform, and no sooner do they turn
their backs than this scum editor
vaults into carriage and returns to the edi-
torial rooms of his damnable sheet there to
summon to his aid all the fiends of darkness
and the powers of hell in composing and
casting broadcast throuhout this fair city an
editorial which is an affront to every decent
man and whom in this city, reflection upon
our honesty and good faith, and of which no
man with spark of chivalry in his compost
ton could be capable. He, the editor, writes:
Mrs. Cleveland's winsome face and grace
full manner are now on public exhibition for
the political purposes of the family
Again: 1T is hard to have respect for
woman who would sell herself to so gross
and repulsive a man as Grover Cleveland,
and one with private record so malodorous.
for the bauble of brief social ascendancy.''
Now, this is fine, very fine. We have
Minnesota girl deliberately accused by an i'm
portation from Kansas City of the crime of
moral prostitution
Not content with honorably high-minded
criticism, the same sheet publicly drags from
the black abyss, where his honorable election
buried 1t three years ago, the Maria Halpin
campaign falsehood; seeks to undermine the
confidlng trust of a pure wife and our invited
guest by hurting this most foul-mouthed in
timation at her retreating form before the
plaud1ts of the people have died upon the
air, and before her white hand has been en-
tirely cleansed from the clammy touch of
such, so-called hospitality. 1t is infamous;
it is unpardonabe.
Republicans have told me they would
gladly sign a document that should with no
equiyocation express their abiding contempt
for the person who penned this editorial. Is
this Minneapolis hospitality? Do we thus
requite the confidence reposed in our good
faith?
Are these sentiments of Mr.. Wasbburn:
Judge Koon, the esteemed judge Just ele
waited to an Office of national importance?
Shall we ride side by side with honored first
citizenship and pure wOmanhood and per
NIT a newspaper to damn us and our motives.
Our presidents wife is our charge while she
fills that position. AS such, no man, but the
people the whole people, are the guardians
of her fair fame. When newspapers, either
from lack of sufficient intellectually to
pen proper, decent reading matter for the
public, or from the inward unholy fire of the
spirit OF calumny, desert the path of honor
able Journalism to make war upon defense
tess womanhood it is time to call a halt and
teach teae the sheets and the men thus dealing
that public sentiment, an outraged public
sentiment, is mightier by far than even the
boasted liberty of the press. Yours very
truly, THOMAS j. LEFTwICH.
REPUDIATEs 1T.
Editor GLOBE: am. by feeling Repub-
ican, but doubt if there is heart in
decent man or woman of either party that
responds to the editorial in this mornings
Tribune. If President Cleveland and his
lady had been making tour in another part
of the country, with even the worst motives,
that the spleen of the editor of the Tribune
could attribute to them, common decency
should have closed the Tribune's columns TO
an attack on the private life or motives of
their union, but with u.s. as our guests, with
the. echo of our. cheers still in
their ears. to send after them an article
attacking private life, does seem to me
an abuse of the rights of host and guest
which even the Arabs would respect. have
no doubt all condemn it, but l merely wish
to add my opinion to the general disgust felt
by every one of either party, high or low,
against such g wanton, ungentlemanly abuse
of the president and Mrs. Cleveland, who
have treated us all as ladies and gentlemen
and who, it would seem, have only been in
vited to visit us for personal abuse. If they
had come uninvited it would have been bad
enough, but as our guests, the G. o. P. has
come to a fine pass when personal abuse of
lady is factor in politics. Our worthy mayer
would have treated with the same courtesy
Republican president and lady as he has
President Cleveland, but to attack him the
organ must invade our guests private lives.
a REPUBLICAN.